Risky Bulletin

Mar 13 2025 100 ep. 13 mins 804
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Regular cybersecurity news updates from the Risky Business team...

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Risky Bulletin: FBI says online file converters are nasty

Mar 13 2025 6 mins  
The FBI warns of online file converters that distribute malware, China backdoors Juniper router, a wave of ransomware hits Taiwan, and North Korean spyware slips into the Play Store.

Srsly Risky Biz: Outside America, Musk's X is a foreign influence threat

Mar 12 2025 15 mins  
Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how X is actively engaging in political interference outside the US. The risks mirror those of TikTok. American legislators moved against TikTok because it could potentially be a powerful tool for the Chinese government to interfere with American political discourse. X is a realised threat, not a potential one, so we expect that foreign governments

Risky Bulletin: Pro-Palestinian hacktivists claim X DDoS

Mar 11 2025 4 mins  
A Pro Palestinian group claims credit for the X DDoS, CISA gets a new director as DOGE fires its red teams, and Asian scam compounds keep growing.

Between Two Nerds: A European cyber command

Mar 10 2025 33 mins  
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about what Europe should do given that US security guarantees are evaporating. Should Europe grow its cyber capabilities, what it would get out of it and how should it go about doing it? This episode is also available on Youtube.

Risky Bulletin: Major browsers patch passkey phishing flaw

Mar 09 2025 7 mins  
Mobile browsers patch a passkey phishing vector, researchers find undocumented commands in a common IoT chip, the US government cuts election security funding, and a hacker steals – and then returns – funds from DeFi platform 1inch.

Sponsored: GreyNoise on 2024's mass internet scan trends

Mar 09 2025 12 mins  
In this Risky Business News sponsor interview, Catalin Cimpanu talks with Andrew Morris, founder of security firm GreyNoise. Andrew talks about the major trends in mass internet scanning and exploitation, as per GreyNoise’s yearly threat report.

Risky Bulletin: US indicts i-Soon and APT27 hackers

Mar 06 2025 5 mins  
The US indicts the i-Soon and APT27 hackers, the BADBOX botnet gets disrupted again,authorities seize the Garantex crypto exchange, and the FBI arrests hackers who stole Taylor Swift concert tickets.

Srsly Risky Biz: Starlink an internet lifeline for pig butchering compounds

Mar 05 2025 22 mins  
In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray discuss how Starlink is providing an internet lifeline for scam compounds that have had their internet access cut by Thai authorities. Starlink has a very poor track record dealing with unauthorised use, but it is time for the company to develop the processes to keep on top of these problems. They also discuss how President Trump’s actio

Risky Bulletin: Research turns any Bluetooth device into an AirTag

Mar 04 2025 5 mins  
Researchers turn any Bluetooth device into an AirTag tracker, VMware patches three ESXi zero-days, France debates encryption backdoors, and a fifth of the stolen Bybit funds are now untraceable.

RBTALKS6: Will Thomas on the Black Basta leaks

Mar 03 2025 25 mins  
In this Risky Business Talks interview we invited Will Thomas to talk about the recent leak of internal chats from the Black Basta ransomware group. Will is a SANS Instructor, co-author of the SANS FOR589 course, and the co-founder of a community research project for CTI analysts called Curated Intelligence. Will walks us through the Black Basta leak and uses the group’s attack o